10ThingsYouCanDoWithApple'sMacBookProTouchBar

If there’s one new flagship feature of the new MacBook Pro, it’s the Touch Bar, an OLED display strip that replaces the function row and dynamically changes depending on the app you’re using. Here are 10 cool things you can do with it.

Function Keys

Even though Apple replaced the function row with an OLED display, that doesn’t mean that you still can’t access the function keys when you need them. All you need to do is hit the Function (FN) at the bottom and boom, there’s your F1 through F12 keys.

Brightness, Volume, and More

How do you access all the default functions that were previously there? Simple. You will now see two virtual buttons that let you adjust display brightness and speaker volume as well as other features such as accessing Launchpad and Mission Control.

Edit Photos

When you go into edit mode in the photos app, you can do things like adjust and crop photos right from the Touch Bar. This is so much like iOS it’s not even funny. It also happens to be one of my favorite features.

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Final Cut

Are you a Final Cut user? If you are, Apple is adding the ability to quickly scrub through your timeline so you can quickly jump to the scene of your choice. This seems more precise than using the trackpad, no? Still, I love the visual element of this.

Scrub Through Video

When watching a video, you can now use the Touch Bar to quickly scrub forward or backwards in the video. This is a nice feature that I think I would use quite often. I’m curious if you’ll be able to do this on websites like YouTube and Vimeo.

Other neat functions include the ability to quickly pick colors via a sliding color picker or the ability to easily invoke Siri. There’s really a lot of cool stuff that can be done as a result of the Touch Bar. It’s a welcome change to an area of the keyboard I almost never use.